Justina Chen Quotes

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• You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.
• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating…
• Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.
• To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
• That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.
• Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend…
• Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.
• Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?
• I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he…
• Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You…
• Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.
• Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.
• Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.
• He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.
• You raze the old to raise the new.
• If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.
• Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed,…
• That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let…
• Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.
• Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark,…

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